How to Create Polls in WordPress

Want to create polls in WordPress? In this step by step guide, we'll show you how to make an interactive poll that displays results instantly on your site.

Approximate read-time: 5 minutes

Want to run polls on your WordPress site? Why not! Polls are fun, engaging, and can help you to gain useful insights from your audience.

In this post, we'll show you how to create a poll and add it to your WordPress site in only 3 steps!

Which plugin to add polls on your site?

A poll is really just a simple web form in disguise. So all you need is a WordPress form builder plugin to get started. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to add a form to your WordPress website using our plugin, Formidable Forms.

What more could you do with polls in WordPress?

What we've described above is really the bare minimum your audience would expect from a poll. But you could do a lot more!

Here's an idea: you can run multiple polls and use Formidable's Views feature to feed the results into a single page. Imagine a master article with all your poll results updated dynamically in real-time!

Another idea? Glad you asked. You could create a multi-page form and let voters provide their email after voting. That way, you can email them the poll results automatically once it ends!

And of course, you can also display your poll graph anywhere on your site with the same shortcode we used above! If you use the classic WordPress editor, you can even build a custom poll display using the Formidable shortcode builder (pictured below).

There are virtually endless possibilities when it comes to polls. All you need is a little imagination and the right tools.

Wrapping up

We hope you enjoyed today's guide to making polls in WordPress. As always, keep it locked to the Formidable blog for more WordPress tips and tricks!